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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Heroic vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Spotify

IBM

Rocket Software

Initial release

1997

2014

2017

1985

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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